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Sunday, November 02, 2014

ISIS religious fanatics continue their mass killing

Public executions and mass graves: ISIS targets Sunni tribe in Iraq

By Odai Sadik, Chelsea J. Carter and Todd Leopold, CNN

updated 10:43 PM EDT, Sat November 1, 2014

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Hundreds of members of Albu Nimr tribe have been killed by ISIS

ISIS fighters carried out public executions of tribesmen in Hit

Group had more than 50 members abducted by ISIS Saturday

Earlier in the week, many others had been killed

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- They were taken from their homes, some pulled from their beds, in the middle of the night. They were fathers, brothers and sons, members of the U.S.-allied Albu Nimr tribe -- the Sunni clan considered among the last holdouts against ISIS in Iraq's western desert.

About 50 members of the tribe were abducted in Hit in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, during the early morning hours on Saturday, Sheikh Nabil Al-Ga'oud, a tribal leader, told CNN.

Their fate is unknown. But Al-Ga'oud and others believe they are likely dead, the latest casualties of ISIS who have killed hundreds of members of the tribe in mass executions in recent days.

The Albu Nimr, who number in the tens of thousands, are ready to fight to take back Hit, Al-Ga'oud said. The city was seized last month by ISIS fighters after weeks of fighting the tribesmen. Hit and neighboring Ramadi were holdouts in the Sunni-dominated Anbar province after ISIS swept in from Syria, taking town after town in the western province. Albu Nimr tribesmen were among those who fought them until they began running of out weapons and supplies.

Tribal leader says fighters ready to strike ISIS

Albu Nimr has a strong force ready to attack Hit, but they need to get the final OKs from the government and also try to coordinate with the Americans, Al-Ga'oud said.

Anbar was the scene of a bloody insurgency during the U.S.-led war in Iraq until an uprising by Sunni tribes, including Albu Nimr, in 2006 took on al Qaeda in Iraq -- the forerunner to ISIS, also known as ISIL. U.S. officials maintain that Iraqi support for Sunni tribes going on the offensive against ISIS will be a necessary part in the effort to defeat the militants, who refer to themselves as the Islamic State.

In a news conference this week, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, signaled the possibility of the new role when he said the Iraqi government had not yet requested U.S. military support in efforts to defend a Sunni tribe that has suffered mass executions at the hands of ISIS militants.

"That's why we need to expand the train-advise-and-assist mission into the ... Anbar Province," Dempsey said. "But the precondition for that is that the government of Iraq is willing to arm the tribes.”

Dempsey said the United States had "positive indications" the Iraqi government was prepared to do that but had not yet acted. There is no indication from Pentagon officials on when such a mission could begin.

Public executions, mass graves

The abduction and suspected killings follow reports this week of public executions and the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of tribesmen killed by ISIS.

The bodies of an estimated 200 members of Albu Nimr were found in a mass grave just outside Hit, a senior Iraqi security official told CNN. The tribesmen were captured by ISIS fighters after it took control of the area, the official said.

Another 48 tribesmen were marched through the streets of Hit before they were publicly executed, the official said. And a mass grave was found in nearby Ramadi, according to Iraqi media accounts. Video of those executions had been uploaded to the Internet.

"We are deeply concerned by reports of mass executions of Sunni tribesmen in Anbar province by ISIL and strongly condemn the brutal actions that ISIL continues to perpetrate against the Iraqi people," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

"...ISIL's indiscriminate crimes prove, yet again, that it is targeting all Iraqis, regardless of faith or region.”

Albu Nimr fights back

Albu Nimr is known for its fighting skill and resistance.

A 2003 Brookings Institution report observed that, though most Iraqi Sunni tribes were loyal to Saddam Hussein in the days when he ran the country, the Albu Nimr tribe had mounted a protest against the former Iraqi strongman in 1995 after the execution of a noted member. The protest was put down by paramilitary forces loyal to Saddam.

In general, however, Saddam respected the Albu Nimr. Since Saddam's fall, they've been tapped to oppose al Qaeda in Iraq. They were also part of last year's Sunni uprising against the former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Shiite-dominated government.

They have been fighting ISIS but say they haven't received much support from the Iraqi government and international coalition members.

May 20, 2008 - Orthodox Jews burn hundreds of New Testaments in latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in Israel. ... The Maariv newspaper reported Tuesday that hundreds of students took part in the book-burning. . . . https://www.google.com/search?q=israel+book+burning&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb

B-52s, unconditional surrender, like in Japan or Germany.................wonderful new countries with entirely new cultures........how many dead........how many new young lives able to grow up in something approaching saniiy........

Tibi warns that that the Israeli regime is ‘playing with fire’ in Jerusalem

Ramallah: An extremist Israeli politician who has been accused of inciting radical Jews to continue their raids of occupied Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque has pledged to change the status quo at the mosque in favour of continued Jewish incursions.

Right wing Israeli MP Moshe Feiglin said during his latest incursion into Islam’s third holiest site that he will work to change the status quo of the mosque to which Jews have traditionally been barred.

Feiglin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, visited the site under tight security on Sunday accompanied by a security detail appointed under orders from Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on Thursday. Hundreds of Feiglin’s extremist supporters accompanied him on the incursion.

Israeli news site Ynet News quoted Feiglin as stating, “The fact that there is a necessity for a security escort at an hour when Arabs are walking around here freely without any fear, says more than anything who feels like a visitor here and who feels like the owner of this site. We will change this reality with the help of God.”

The reality is that the Zionists have abandoned God ... Abandoned the 'Book', abandoned the 'Word'.

America is killing, by % scores more civilians in both Syria and across the globes in their attempts to kill your friends, the Jihadists,

Israel is leap years ahead of the world.

As for "brute force" to "annex" the nonexistent place called "palestine"?

No, not brute force, but by natural usage and stewardship.

The lands of the territories of the Mandate of Palestine have never flourished as well as they have but under israeli stewardship.

possession is 9/10th of the law. israel IS

there is NO Palestine. They arabs that call themselves that do not have a government of any quality, they do not control their natural resources or their borders (there are no borders) as you love to point out.

The fake nationalistic movement called "palestinians" is crumbling and having a civil war...

And Yes, i will pop corn and laugh as they slaughter one another...

When Hamas tossed scores of Fatah/PA member off the high rises of gaza? That was a fun moment....

As Egypt is destroying 10,000 homes in Rafal? Creating a "breathing space"? I am laughing and popping corn...

While you point out the crimes of ISIS? (which are war crimes) and Ignore the Iranian/Syrian murder of hundreds of thousands? I laugh at YOU...

the innocents being murdered by their fellow moslems is a tragedy, but not of my responsibility nor action, it is a consequence of people like you....

Another reason the US should have never gotten involved with this war in the first place.

The controlling factor in Iraq/Syria is 'the enemy of my enemy is my enemy'. There are no allies, there only adversaries. And when the US finally 'wins' (regardless of what that means in the end) we will merely be left with the last dick standing.

As for Syria, the US does not subsidize the regime of President Assad.Indeed not. The US has provided material aid to those in rebellion against the legitimate government, the one currently recognized by the UN.

It drew the line, though, when it appeared that al-Qeada operatives would take power there, in Syria.The Israelis, however, would prefer it, if al-Qeada were to take charge of Syria.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told the Jerusalem Post that Israel so wanted Assad out and his Iranian backers weakened, that Israel would accept al-Qaeda operatives taking power in Syria.

“We always wanted Bashar Assad to go, we always preferred the bad guys who weren’t backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran.”

Even if the other “bad guys” were affiliated with al-Qaeda. “We understand that they are pretty bad guys,” Oren said in the interview.

Egypt is blowing up and bulldozing 10,000 arabs of Rafah, call them palestinians is you choose, either way and the largest most powerful arab nation is destroying them and closing off the strip and BUILDING a water filled MOAT...

The US is badly mistaken in considering that Israel is an ally. It is not, it is a political sink and a wasting tax with no benefit the US public. Since the US economy got punished by OPEC for the US foolishly taking Israel’s side and coming to her defense, it has been nothing more than a one sided parasitic relationship where the US gives and Israel takes.

If I am wrong, give me three substantial examples of where Israel has done anything for the US that was not self-serving, they weren’t paid for or it was not a ruse to tighten Israeli influence on the Conga Line.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 Iraqi tribesmen, women and children Sunday, officials said, the latest mass slaying by militants who have killed some 150 members of the tribe in recent days.Related Stories

The killings, all committed in public, target the Sunni Al Bu Nimr tribe that the Islamic State group now apparently views as a threat, though previously some Sunnis backed the expansion of the group and other militants into the volatile province in December.

As Deuce posted.

At the same time Hamas fired rockets at the civilians of Israel, attempting to do the same.

The attempt is a war crime.....

Hamas also has sent it's operatives into Israel to murder a baby, and attempt to murder a Rabbi...

Yep ISIS and Hamas 2 feathers from the same bird.

One has to wonder how is it so easy for ISIS to kill so many with out any fighting back?

David Ben-Gurion referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return." • Address at the Mapai Political Committee (7 June 1938) as quoted in Feuerlicht, Roberta, 1983.

Since 1967, Israel has destroyed approximately 27,000 Palestinian structures in the occupied territories (the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip), including more than 24,000 homes, according to ICAHD.

Since the renewal of negotiations in August 2013, Israel has destroyed approximately 25 Palestinian homes, in addition to dozens of other structures, leaving approximately 200 people homeless.

According to the UN, between January and September 2013, 862 Palestinians were displaced by Israeli demolitions, compared to 886 (including 468 children) in all of 2012.

In 2012, a total of 600 Palestinian structures were demolished by Israel in the occupied territories, including at least 189 homes, according to ICAHD. This figure doesn’t include “self-demolitions” whereby Palestinians destroy their own homes ...rather than have Israel do it and charge them an additional fine.

One Bedouin village, Al-Araqib, in the Negev desert in the south of Israel, has been destroyed more than 50 times by Israel since July 2010.

Between 1993 and 2000, when the Oslo Accords were being negotiated between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel destroyed almost 1700 Palestinian homes in the occupied territories.

Immediately following Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza in 1967, approximately 6000 Palestinian homes were demolished, including four entire villages in the Latrun area, along with dozens of homes in the Mughrabi Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, which were destroyed to make way for a plaza for the Western Wall.

In 1971, between 2000 and 6000 Palestinian homes were destroyed in Gaza in an effort to pacify the newly occupied territory.

During Israel’s creation (1948-49), Zionist and then Israeli forces expelled approximately 750,000 Palestinian Arabs from their ancestral lands in order to create a Jewish majority state of Israel.

In the process, more than 400 Palestinian population centers were systematically destroyed, including thousands of homes, businesses, and houses of worship.

Actually, I love Israel, alive and prosperous, free and at peace with its neighbors. I want to see it be saved from the damn fools that rule it and at the rate they are going will one day have it vaporized by one nuclear hit.

Deuce ☂Sun Nov 02, 10:52:00 AM ESTActually, I love Israel, alive and prosperous, free and at peace with its neighbors. I want to see it be saved from the damn fools that rule it and at the rate they are going will one day have it vaporized by one nuclear hit.

Any enemy of Israel that is willing, wanting and trying to "vaporize" israel? Should be destroyed.

On another matter, I am cheering for a 50/50 tie in the Senate. I have zero confidence in the Republican or Democratic party to do the right thing or anything that will increase freedom and wealth for the general US population. On the contrary, if the Republicans do take control, it will serve the Democrats well. Two years of both houses of the Conga Line, controlled and cheered on by the Republican establishment, aligned and beholden to those that don’t vote for them but loved by every Republican presidential candidate, will be more than enough time to scare the living B-Jesus out of the US public and guarantee a shoe-in to any sane Democrat. God willing.

No matter who wins on Tuesday, Obama will be there on Nov 24th to appease the Iranians to the point of allowing them to continue to build more and better centrifuges, weapon systems and ICBM platforms..

Then? the world will see an Sunni race to multiple NUKE platforms asap...

I am impressed by the god loving god fearing wing here at the bar, the popcorn eaters that love and cheer on human death and destruction in Gaza and the Middle East as long as the sorry pathetic victims are other than the chosen special, god’s children. The same one’s that want to bring Iran into war, actually the same crew that believes the most in war is most coincidentally of the ilk that has served the least. Imagine that.

Another reason the US should have never gotten involved with this war in the first place.

The controlling factor in Iraq/Syria is 'the enemy of my enemy is my enemy'. There are no allies, there only adversaries. And when the US finally 'wins' (regardless of what that means in the end) we will merely be left with the last dick standing.

To continue that thought,.

The Iraqi government needs the Sunnis if they want to take back Anbar but taking the long view they fear them too much to give them the arms needed for them to make a difference. We've seen instances where the Sunnis (Albu Nimr et a) have fought well but still been overrun do to the lack of arms and air support even though they asked for both. We have seen Iraqi military installations in Anbar overrun for the same reasons. The lack of support from Baghdad appears to be political. The lack of air support is no doubt due to the US insistence that all such support in Iraq be green lighted by the government.

The Sunnis see this and view Baghdad as the enemy and the US as picking sides. Yet these are the same people we will need if we have any plans on taking back Anbar.

Much of the same applies to the Kurds. The Kurds have their own agenda and it centers primarily on the Kurds. They will support the government’s efforts if it affects them directly but their demands are for a bigger piece of the oil pie and greater autonomy in Kurdistan.Baghdad is reluctant to grant either and fears giving the Kurds more weapons. The US sits on its hands struggling with its own self-imposed handcuffs.

Among the Kurds, there are a dozen political parties and factions scattered across four nations. All would like an independent Kurdistan; however, each of the leaders of the major factions wants to make sure that if there is an independent state he will be the one in charge. The fact that the Iraqi Kurds are sending a couple hundred fighters to help in Kobane is being touted by some as a sign of solidarity among the Kurds. Bushwa. It is all PR. First, 200 fighters isn’t enough to make a difference however it does provide great PR for Erdogan and Barzani if and when Korbane is liberated. In that case, each could claim some part of the victory at little risk.

Ocalan, who is in jail in Turkey, and Barzani are the two most powerful Kurdish leaders at the moment. Yet, even though Ocalan is in jail he is the real spiritual leader of the Kurds. Barzani is the wannabe who really only has full support in two provinces. Barzani needs all the good PR he can get. Sending a couple hundred fighters is nothing if it keeps him in the game.

The move by Erdogan was also for the PR. His key aims are primarily to take out Assad, then to keep the Kurds emasculated, with a very far third being fighting the IS if he is forced to. The US and the NATO allies have been pressuring Erdogan to stop allowing IS recruits to travel through Turkey to Syria and to help the Kurds. There was no way Erdogan was going to send troops to help the Kurds in Kobane but he was persuaded to allow some Iraqi Kurds to pass through as long as they were Iraqi Kurds (Erdogan has a good relationship with Barzani) and not Turkish Kurds.

Then you have Assad. He is currently making hay while the sun shines, taking advantage of the US bombing in the east of Syria to expand his operations in the west of Syria knowing full we that eventually the US might turn to him. But then he and his friends have always faced that possibility.

As for the factions he is attacking, al-Qeada, the FSA, and al-Nusra, et al, they have been further alienated (along with Turkey) with the US’s de facto support of Assad and the rejection of any of them.

Yet these are the same people we will need if we have any plans on taking back Anbar.

There in lies the problem you have with understanding the US strategy, Legionnaire Q.

The 'we', I assume is US.The US did not have Anbar and has no intention of "taking it back".

That is not the goal, never was.The goal is to support the Iraqi government, the one installed in the "Golden Age" of the post Saddam occupation, in its effort to 'take back' Anbar.

The goal of the US is to 'degrade and destroy' the Daesh, not take territory.

The US has lots of time, and can wait while the Iraqi either 'get it together', or not.In the mean time the US will continue to support those that are allied with US in our low intensity conflict with al-Qeada and its divergent branches.

While it is often confusing just who is whom, in the political world of the Islamic Arc, the US is moving ahead, half-stepping as it advances.

Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornets have conducted their first combat mission supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. And here are some interesting shots.

Now the Daesh have had it

I disagree.

Very nice pictures but I was listening to the CBC yesterday reporting on the first Canadian mission. Evidently they were unable find any targets. The explanation was that weather condition and 'other factors' prevented them from targeting any perps from the height they were operating from. They said they would be sending out TWO planes the next day.

Two planes. Canada had sent over a total of six. If the same pattern holds, the coalition (minus the US) will be sending out what 10 to 12 planes a day to cover tens of thousands of square miles hoping to find a target. I still remain underwhelmed by the effort.

Yep, the effort is what we refer to as 'half-stepping'.No doubt about that.

Not carpet bombing, not indiscriminate destruction of infrastructure and civilian housing ...It is a slow and steady pace, designed to denigrate actual enemy combatants, not use massive amounts of ordinance.

Fallujah, Fallujah Dam, Tikrit, Sinjar, the Border Crossings, and some others come first. Hit is way down the list.

First, why would you go after targets controlled by IS before trying to hold on to towns you already control?

Second, given that the targets suggested are the priorities why haven't there been any move against them? Obviously, other factors are in play.

Third, why is the US effort centered on support for Kobane. One of the reasons stated by the brass is that that is were the enemy is, in formation, in numbers. Why wouldn't the same apply around Hit. There were plenty of IS there.

Fourth, you say the US is doing what it has to, bombin and a bombin and a bombin. All that bombin does is leave a big hole in the sand if there are not targets. There were plenty of targets at Hit. There was an active force of friendlies on the ground and they were actively fighting. They were able to get in touch with Baghdad why weren't they able to get support?

Hit went down because of politics not because of any military priorities.

The point is that the US policy right now is hampered by political considerations just as it was hampered in Iraq II and Afghanistan. When you go to war the primary goal is to win it. The US is too afraid of stepping on toes. The problem in Iraq/Syria is that there are no good guys and you have toes in every direction you look.

Those are the terms we always use after we leave. We are just smart enough to not fully define them until after we pull out. It's all part of the "Declare Victory and Leave" phenomenon. Wise up, rat. Whether we win, lose, or draw, we always 'win'.

The longer the US is there just a trippin and a bombin when they feel like it the more chance they have of bumping up against Assad or encountering one of them unknown unknowns that can bite you in the butt and end up expanding this thing in a way we are all to familiar with.

1) The air power being used isn't going to do much against ISIS except around the edges2) Support the Kurds with weapons and perhaps some kind of defensive perimeter3) Other than that let the apes kill themselves4) Obama will throttle back after the elections5) Obama is the cause of all this in the first place

Sound like my opinions? All have been expressed by at least three others here, except 5 which seems to be my own bugaboo.

I agree with 1 through 5 and it's nice to see so many others agreeing with me on 1 through 4.

Ash, as usual, doesn't seem to have any discernable opinion.

Rufus talks of passing the popcorn and viewing it as a sporting event.

Jack HawkinsSun Nov 02, 11:18:00 AM ESTWhen the "Squatter Settlers" are removed from their 'Jewish' communities, you will be reminded of that.

Jews, for the sake of peace, removed Jewish communities from Gaza and the West bank.

ANd Israel routinely REMOVES illegal structures built by Jews in Israel.

Israeli trailers removed from Palestinian property near Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Four Israeli trailers were removed from a Palestinian man's privately owned land in a Bethlehem-area village on Thursday, a popular committee spokesman said.

Ahmad Salah, a spokesman for a local popular committee, told Ma'an that Muhammad Abdullah Sbeih had received an Israeli court ruling that the trailers -- planted by an Israeli man who runs a nearby settler outpost -- must be removed from his land in the village of al-Khadr.

The trailers were installed by settlers four years ago in Sbeih's field in the Ein al-Qassis area, Salah said.

Sbeih had received an earlier ruling from an Israeli court that the trailers must be removed, but the settlers had refused to implement the decision, Salah said.

Notice there are no riots, no murders when Jews are found in the wrong by the courts and the police enforce the law....

the Talmud teaches that"unnatural intercourse does not cause a woman to be forbidden to marry a High Priest,"since then "you will find no woman eligible … ."... from the Talmud book of Yebamoth, Folios 59a-59b)

Rulings of the "sages" follow:"A woman who had intercourse with a beast is eligible to marry a priest — even a High Priest."

Unless specifically warned in advance and the act seen by two witnesses, she is acceptable also. If she had intercourse with a dog while sweeping the floor, she is likewise reckoned to be pure, and suitable. For,

"The result of such intercourse being regarded as a mere wound, and the opinion that does not regard an accidentally injured hymen as a disqualification does not regard such as intercourse either." http://www.come-and-hear.com/dilling/chapt05.html

While Moses wrote ... in Leviticus ...... And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Top medical experts studying the spread of Ebola say the public should expect more cases to emerge in the United States by year's end as infected people arrive here from West Africa, including American doctors and nurses returning from the hot zone and people fleeing from the deadly disease.

But how many cases?

No one knows for sure how many infections will emerge in the U.S. or anywhere else, but scientists have made educated guesses based on data models that weigh hundreds of variables, including daily new infections in West Africa, airline traffic worldwide and transmission possibilities.

This week, several top infectious disease experts ran simulations for The Associated Press that predicted as few as one or two additional infections by the end of 2014 to a worst-case scenario of 130.

GOP up 104,000 in CO early votingposted at 2:31 pm on November 1, 2014 by Ed Morrissey

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When Democrats pushed through mail-in voting for Colorado, Republicans objected over the potential for vote fraud. So far, though, the GOP has become its biggest beneficiary. Late yesterday, a report from the Secretary of State showed Republicans with a 104,000-ballot lead, giving them a nine-point edge in early voting:

Republicans are blowing out Democrats in Colorado early voting, the secretary of State there says. …

The AP said that 41 percent of the 1.1 million early ballots were from Republicans, with roughly a third coming from Democrats and a quarter from independent voters. Colorado’s voters are basically evenly split among the three groups.

The AP further noted that the GOP has had good penetration into traditionally Democratic demographics — even among younger voters:

More than 60 percent of those whose votes have been sent are 55 or older, a segment that grew from 45 percent in the midterm election in 2010.

Democrats have been trying to turn out voters who usually skip lower-interest midterms. But it’s Republicans who normally miss those elections who are voting in greater numbers this year.

The GOP even leads Democrats among voters 18 to 25, a group that has been the backbone of Democrats’ dominance over the past decade in Colorado.............

I don't know.......I'm nearly always wrong........but it does seem to me mail in voting might not be so great for the democrats......aren't all these Republicans often thought to be lazy old folks.......what can be easier than to mail in your vote?

Latest NBC poll gives Perdue 4 point lead over Nunn in Georgia November 2, 2014 Not in the bag by any means. More

See American Thnker :

November 2, 2014Latest NBC poll gives Perdue 4 point lead over Nunn in GeorgiaBy Rick Moran

NBC has released a slew of Senate polls that contains very good news for Republicans.

Kentucky: Mitch McConnell seems to be pulling away in the final days. The poll gives the Senate minority leader a 9 point edge over his Democratic challenger Allison Lundergan Grimes. McConnell has increased his lead over the last 10 days and it appears that this race is effectively over.

Georgia: Businessman David Perdue has jumped to a 4 point lead over Democrat Michelle Nunn. This is barely outside the magin of error and likely means that neither candidate will get 50% of the vote. This will lead to a runoff that Perdue leads by 3 points, according to the poll.

In head-to-head matchups pitting Landrieu against either GOP candidate, both Cassidy and Maness receive 50 percent support, while Landrieu performs almost identically against either Republican – at 45 and 46 percent, respectively.

Partly because he’s less well known in the state, Cassidy enjoys a better favorable rating (45 percent favorable/ 41 percent unfavorable) than Landrieu (44 percent favorable / 50 percent unfavorable). Landrieu was first elected in 1996 and has survived two competitive elections since.

With Joni Ernst leading in Iowa, Republicans may not need that Louisiana seat to reach a majority.

Republicans can afford to lose either Georgia or Kansas - not both. They appear to have 4 Democratic seats locked up in ND, WV, AR, and MT. Races in CO and IA are looking very good. But GOP held seats in GA and KS are still in doubt. With a net of 6 seats needed for GOP control, if they lose both states, they will have to win some other close race like NH - a very iffy proposition.

>>>Ernst is the daughter of Richard and Marilyn Culver.[2] Born and raised in Montgomery County, Iowa, she was valedictorian of her class at Stanton High School.[3] Ernst earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University and a Master of Public Administration degree from Columbus College.[3][4] While in college, Ernst took part in an agricultural exchange to the Soviet Union.[5]<<<<

What is "Occupation"Sun Nov 02, 09:57:00 AM ESTthere is NO Palestine. They arabs that call themselves that do not have a government of any quality, they do not control their natural resources or their borders (there are no borders) as you love to point out.

There are no borders because there has been no agreement between the parties.

Timeline of the name "Palestine"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Timeline of the name Palestine)

This article presents a list of notable historical references to the name Palestine, and cognates such as "Filastin" and "Palaestina", throughout the history of the region.

The term "Peleset" (transliterated from hieroglyphs as P-r-s-t) is found in five inscriptions referring to a neighboring people or land starting from c.1150 BCE during the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt. The first known mention is at the temple at Medinet Habu which refers to the Peleset among those who fought with Egypt in Ramesses III's reign,[1][2] and the last known is 300 years later on Padiiset's Statue. The Assyrians called the same region "Palashtu" or "Pilistu", beginning with Adad-nirari III in the Nimrud Slab in c.800 BCE through to an Esarhaddon treaty more than a century later.[3][4] Neither the Egyptian nor the Assyrian sources provided clear regional boundaries for the term.[5]

The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the entire area between Phoenicia and Egypt was in 5th century BC Ancient Greece,[6][7] when Herodotus wrote of a 'district of Syria, called Palaistinê" in The Histories, which included the Judean mountains and the Jordan Rift Valley.[6][8][9][10][11][12] Approximately a century later, Aristotle used a similar definition for the region in Meteorology, in which he included the Dead Sea.[13] Later Greek writers such as Polemon and Pausanias also used the term to refer to the same region, which was followed by Roman writers such as Ovid, Tibullus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Dio Chrysostom, Statius, Plutarch as well as Roman Judean writers Philo of Alexandria and Josephus.[14] Other writers, such as Strabo, referred to the region as Coele-Syria ("all Syria") around 10-20 CE.[15][16] The term was first used to denote an official province in c.135 CE, when the Roman authorities, following the suppression of the Bar Kokhba Revolt, combined Iudaea Province with Galilee and the Paralia to form "Syria Palaestina". There is circumstantial evidence linking Hadrian with the name change,[15] but the precise date is not certain[15] and the assertion of some scholars that the name change was intended "to complete the dissociation with Judaea"[17][18] is disputed.[6]

The term is generally accepted to be a translation of the Biblical name Peleshet (פלשת Pəlésheth, usually transliterated as Philistia). The term and its derivates are used more than 250 times in Masoretic-derived versions of the Hebrew Bible,[19] of which 10 uses are in the Torah, with undefined boundaries, and almost 200 of the remaining references are in the Book of Judges and the Books of Samuel.[3][14][20] The term is rarely used in the Septuagint, who used a transliteration Land of Phylistieim (Γη των Φυλιστιειμ) different from the contemporary Greek place name Palaistínē (Παλαιστίνη).[6] The Septuagint instead used the term "allophuloi" (Αλλόφυλοι, "other nations") throughout the Books of Judges and Samuel,[21][22] such that the term "Philistines" has been interpreted to mean "non-Israelites of the Promised Land" when used in the context of Samson, Saul and David,[23] and Rabbinic sources explain that these peoples were different from the Philistines of the Book of Genesis.[21]

During the Byzantine period, the region of Palestine within Syria Palaestina was subdivided into Palaestina Prima and Secunda,[24] and an area of land including the Negev and Sinai became Palaestina Salutaris.[24] Following the Muslim conquest, place names that were in use by the Byzantine administration generally continued to be used in Arabic.[3][25] The use of the name "Palestine" became common in Early Modern English,[26] was used in English and Arabic during the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem and was revived as an official place name with the British Mandate for Palestine.

The native people of lands of lands of Palestine were the Jews up until 1966 when Yasser Arafat ( the egyptian) working with the Egyptian's version of their CIA created a new "front" for the destruction of the State of Israel.

There were NO arabs living in the lands until 640 CE a mere 1400 years ago when the Kurd Saladin conquered the land for Islam.

Meanwhile, in overseas news, the Republican International "War On Women" continues....news from niece......

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You can understand that the Palestinians wonder about the recent European arrivals that come from the lands between the ever changing borders of Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Austria, Prussia, Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire. From one of those vexing postal codes comes the word of brazen arrogance: “chutzpah”.

In 1973, Kissinger did not feel that pressing the Soviet Union concerning the plight of Jews being persecuted there was in the interest of U.S. foreign policy. In conversation with Nixon shortly after a meeting with Golda Meir on March 1, 1973, Kissinger stated, "The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy, and if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

Christopher Hitchens, the British-American journalist and author, was highly critical of Kissinger, authoring The Trial of Henry Kissinger, in which Hitchens called for the prosecution of Kissinger "for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture"

George W. Bush was going to have him chair the investigation into the 11SEP2001 raids on the US ...Then he was informed tht he'd have to make his client list public, to avoid an appearance of "Conflict of Interest

Israel was born about 65 years ago. Why aren't the Jews satisfied with that simple fact? If they want to continue the myth that the area called Palestine was promised to them by God and has always been occupied by Jews and that it is therefore there 'historic homeland', fine. But why spread that fairy tale here where no one but Bob buys it?

will show it has been occupied by humans for 200,000 years, that it was occupied by hunter gatherers for 10-15,0000 years, that Jerusalem was a city for a 1000 years before the Jews conquered it. If you look at the timeline you will see how amazingly small was the total number of years the Jews actually ruled sections of Palestine as an actual independent state rather than as a colony of some greater power or not at all. In the total time since the Jews first arrived they had one brief moment of glory and then it was gone.

Gaza cut off from the world as Israel, Egypt close border crossingsKerem Shalom, Erez crossings closed following rocket fire at Israel; Egypt speeds up project to create buffer zone on Gaza border after satellite images show hundreds of smuggling tunnels remain

According to the Arabic Sky News channel, the evacuation of the border area to create a buffer zone was sped up after satellite images showed hundreds of tunnels remaining in the area, even after an intense Egyptian campaign to eliminate them.

He once again claimed that "the treacherous terrorist operations which we have been witnessing, such as the latest operation that has targeted Karam Al-Kawadis checkpoint, have been backed from abroad," and that the Egyptian army has already managed to kill several terrorists involved in these attacks.

While the Egyptian army has managed to destroy 1,500 smuggling tunnels, satellite images exposed hundreds of additional tunnels - some in Rafah mosques, bedrooms and shops.

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.